as of right now, the tire is holding air with no slow leak...i used a can of aerosol flat fix to get the bead to set (yep i tried lots of other stuff too) and this had the positive side-effect of sealing up some of the age cracks...but i know this is not a perma fix, and at some point i will have to get the tire off to either replace or get it tubed...in the meantime i will try the recommended remedies to get it loose...(NO SLEDGE HAMMERS!)... probably not a bad idea to go after both rears wheels and the front at the same time...never know when you might need to get them off...
i was thinking about adding a sleeve hitch to this tractor, but now i'm not at all sure that it's really a "GT" tractor at all...and if i can't do the sleeve hitch cuz it's not a GT, i don't really need to take the wheel off, as long as i can get it to hold air...as an LT, this tractor will find much use hauling a wagon...firewood, pumpkins, water, hay, etc...and it can still pull a trail mower and do it's share of lawn mowing...
just a dumb question...has anyone ever tried running a belt off the mower deck PTO pulley to power things like generators and water pumps? seems like an 18 hp engine might power a 10k w generator just fine...